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A bygone Capitol area restaurant is getting a new menu — cookies. The Phoenix Rescue Mission bought the decades-old building that had housed Oaxaca Restaurante y Cantina in July with the intent of expanding its vocational development programs, including its mail-order cookie business.

The head of the state Republican Party said Tuesday that Susan Bitter Smith should consider resigning from the Arizona Corporation Commission rather than fighting the bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to have her ousted from office.

Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed Tucson lawyer Eric Slocum Sparks to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission.

A five-year saga over the identity of the contributors who funded a Democratic campaign group’s ads against Tom Horne in the 2010 attorney general’s race ended on Monday after the group disclosed its contributors to the Secretary of State’s Office.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has taken the first steps in what should result in the public finally getting a look at text messages Bob Stump sent and received during last year's election.

By May, the Secretary of State’s Office expects to officially unveil a new online system that it says will revolutionize the way people can search and sort through campaign finance data, from the state level down to Arizona’s smallest counties and towns.

Arizona transportation officials are responding to a flurry of deadly wrong-way crashes with a plan for a test project on a Phoenix freeway that includes using sensors to detect wrong-way drivers and alert authorities and other motorists.

A massive personnel reform package pushed through the Legislature by Brewer in 2012 dramatically shifted the balance of power between the state and its employees. The law made most new employees at-large, or “uncovered,” and required covered employees to give up their merit protection in order to receive promotions or raises. Covered employees were offered bonuses to entice them to switch to uncovered status.

A group of about 25 demonstrators chanted “Ducey, we reject your racism” outside the Governor’s Tower this morning in a protest against Gov. Doug Ducey’s call for an “immediate halt” to the resettlement of all refugees in Arizona. Ducey is ...

Rebuffed in his efforts to sweep dollars from First Things First as a part of K-12 funding plans, Senate President Andy Biggs will still get an audit of the early childhood development program that conservative lawmakers have long argued is ...